"HTTP Error" on large ZIP or video upload

michaelrepucci

Firstly, awesome job! Zen Photo is the best tool for self-hosted photo galleries that I've ever seen.

Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty uploading large ZIP files or videos. I searched the forums and read the trouble-shooting guide, but couldn't find this error mentioned elsewhere. I'm not particularly familiar with PHP, but I suspect that it may be a PHP setting, but I'm a bit wary to start changing setting that don't mean much to me.

As recommended, I set upload_max_size = post_max_size = 500M to allow for large files. This worked well for my 12M photos, but with a video of, for example, 85M, it uploads seemingly well until the end, when I get a "HTTP Error" message. Could this possibly have to do with the PHP settings below (shown with my server's current settings)?

max_execution_time = 300
max_input_time = 60
memory_limit = 18M

If so, could somebody explain what the consequence would be of turning these setting up high enough to allow for ZIP/video upload (i.e., are there security issues, server overload issues, etc)?

If this isn't the problem, any ideas what could be causing this error? I'm using Firefox 6, in case that matters.

Thanks!

acrylian

You should contact your host as your server might not really provide 500M especially if it is shared hosting. It also may be that he server reports false values (as noted on the admin overview page).